Joint proceedings of the 2nd and the 3rd International Conference on Food Security Innovation (ICFSI 2018-2019)

Determining the Efficient Weighing Area for Food Commodities in Port by Discrete Event Simulation

Authors
Asep Ridwan, Ade Irman Saeful, Rino Emil Agusta
Corresponding Author
Asep Ridwan
Available Online 4 March 2021.
DOI
10.2991/absr.k.210304.027How to use a DOI?
Keywords
food commodities, discrete event simulation, port, utilization, queuing
Abstract

DF Inc. is a company provided in port services. One of its activities is the loading and unloading of food commodities such as soybeans, corn, wheat, and so on. There are around 500 trucks that want to carry out the loading and unloading process at DF Inc. so that there is a queuing of trucks in the weighing area. This study aims to determine the location of an efficient weighing area to minimize the queuing of trucks.The simulation is designed using a discrete event simulation. There are 10 scenarios of improvements for locations with load bills. Scenario 10 is the best scenario by placing 1 scale on the ABCDE scale, 1 scale in the FGHIJ warehouse and 2 scales near the station 7. The number of trucks that can be served by the existing model is 722 units. While the best scenario is 944 units. The percentage of scales utilization in the existing model is 41.72% and the best scenario is 35.85%. With this simulation provides a policy choice for companies to make decisions on the placement of an efficient weighing area.

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Volume Title
Joint proceedings of the 2nd and the 3rd International Conference on Food Security Innovation (ICFSI 2018-2019)
Series
Advances in Biological Sciences Research
Publication Date
4 March 2021
ISBN
10.2991/absr.k.210304.027
ISSN
2468-5747
DOI
10.2991/absr.k.210304.027How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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PY  - 2021
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